Brussels. The Ministry of Finances of Colombia, Luis Guillermo Plata, declared to the media that the negotiations with the European Union for a Free Trade Agreement closed successfully last 1rts of March. Production of the free zones, banana, sugar and coffee were among the main Colombian benefits of the new FTA with the powerful economical block. However, the Colombian producers of milk are worried, because it is expected that the country will see the massive importation of milk products. (more…)
On 2010/03/03, In Economy, By Albeiro Rodas
The political leaders of the world could not reach a satisfactory agreement on the climate change to save the earth in Copenhagen 2009.
The time is getting short for the earth.
Haro gives in this drawing the idea of what political leaders went to do in Denmark. (more…)
On 2009/12/30, In Economy, By Albeiro Rodas
Evidently the global crisis took over number worries this year around the globe. Even if Latin America passed as the region with the best readiness to face the financial Tsunami, its economies suffered the consequences. For the Spanish financial magazine AmericaEconomia in its special report at the end of the year, these were the main numbers that affected the Western Hemisphere in 2009: (more…)
The Ring of the South Africa World Cup 2010 is made in Colombia by Colombian talent. Even if the national team was eliminated in the World Cup qualification, the goldsmiths of Bucaramanga were unbeatable as the best of their art in the planet.
Photo from Colombia is Passion
On 2009/12/01, In Economy, By Albeiro Rodas
The Administrative Department of Statistics of Colombia, DANE (its acronym in Spanish) reported that unemployment is higher this year.
In the period August – October 2008 the national rate of unemployment was 10.8%.
This year to the same period it is 11.8%.
The global financial crisis produced its effects in the Colombian economy especially in the deterioration of the main sources of employment like industry and commerce.
On 2009/09/29, In Economy, By Albeiro Rodas
While the Venezuela of Hugo Chávez is embarking itself in the celebrated ‘socialism of the 21rst century’, investors are running out of the country. Even if Colombia has not big oil reserves like its socialist neighbor, the Andean country has a considerable production and it stills an option as well. (more…)
On 2009/09/13, In Economy, By Albeiro Rodas
President Uribe opened a Starch Plant in the Sucre department and said that rural areas must be benefited from industrialization. The project, located in Corozal, is thought to develop the plantations of yucca in the rural department and generate employment in the area.
Photo Presidencia de la República
The Colombian Association of Exporters (Analdex), rejected the threats of Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez over commerce with Colombia and declared support for the government during the 21rst National Congress of Exporters in Bogotá. 
The University of Cauca is working in the development of a disposal cup that is also biodegradable. The cup will be based on cassava starch. ´The idea is create disposable products that are also biodegradable,´ said Héctor Villada, scholar at the Faculty of Agronomy to El Tiempo newspaper. (more…)
Conflicts of interests between multinationals and indigenous groups are not only confined to legal debate over property rights. If you ask the indigenous Embera in Choco, their fight against a mining project isn’t just a conflict about their legal ownership of the land, but a project that threatens to completely demolish their culture. (more…)
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